Noun : His account of the incident was a complete contortion of fact.    From Dictionary.com. 

I went through some brain contortions try to see that as a kilt but it was plain BEIGE for pete's sake!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sound Politics: Vast Oddball Conspiracy Emanating From Issaquah] Reference

CNN is in contortions about the political implications of this decision given Warner's political aspirations.    From Wordnik.com.  [11/29/2005] Reference

Behind all of these contortions is the assertion that these stories “matter,” a sentiment born of the need to sell individual comic books week in and week out.    From Wordnik.com.  [That’s where the money is | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment] Reference

I'd like to see him become president, but I don't like to watch him go through these kind of contortions to get there.    From Wordnik.com.  [Farrakhan's Support For Obama? Hugely Controversial. Hagee's Backing Of McCain? No Problem.] Reference

Another new affidavit says Padilla suffers from "facial tics" and bodily "contortions," and fears that his lawyers are government agents.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Tape: An 'Enemy' Interrogation] Reference

Love the angle on the bee and thanks for clarifying it being February–I was wondering what kind of contortions you could do to get a hellebore to bloom in August, LOL!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Picture This, August 2009 « Fairegarden] Reference

Your false choices do nothing to cloud that, and your accusations of "contortions" are all in your head.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress] Reference

He hadn't seen contortions like that since Rose Mary Woods.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stranger In The Night] Reference

The whimsies of one language become amazing contortions in another.    From Wordnik.com.  [Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century] Reference

Forget the contortions needed to put -- ah, how should this be said?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Potemkin Prosperity] Reference

His contortions were so ludicrous that the boys broke into roars of laughter.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Radio Boys Trailing a Voice or, Solving a Wireless Mystery] Reference

Oh, what wretched contortions of God's beautiful handiwork have men made of themselves!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness.] Reference

We may guess how their invention has been racked by the strange contortions it has produced.    From Wordnik.com.  [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851] Reference

No eye could follow the inconceivably swift contortions that wrapped the Major in a triple fold.    From Wordnik.com.  [Terry A Tale of the Hill People] Reference

It's packed with the kinds of contortions you'd expect from someone straddling so many cultural fences.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fighting Words] Reference

The contortions of his face when poor Nat worked himself into this sort of a fever were simply agonizing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Airplane Boys among the Clouds or, Young Aviators in a Wreck] Reference

They bear the scars and contortions of many a hard-fought battle with the storms that often sweep the narrow glen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847] Reference

The Giannoulias spot hammers Kirk over his contortions about his military service and repeatedly blasts his "lies.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Happy Hour Roundup] Reference

Tarantism was an epidemic nervous affection characterized by involuntary dancing, gesticulations, contortions and cries.    From Wordnik.com.  [Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery] Reference

Read on for Matthew Barney's muscular contortions, experimental beauty in Iceland, and Daniel Richter's surreal universe.    From Wordnik.com.  [ARTINFO: Five Shows to See Around the World] Reference

Again he went through his curious contortions and scared some of the ladies, as he snapped his beak dangerously near them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Adventures of Uncle Jeremiah and Family at the Great Fair Their Observations and Triumphs] Reference

"That's too slow," said Sydney, as Bill, after some awful contortions, at length delivered himself of what he called "a cast.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843] Reference

"Oh, come on!" laughed Paul, while the newsboy went into amused contortions at the exaggerated language and gestures of Mr. Switzer.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Moving Picture Girls in War Plays Or, The Sham Battles at Oak Farm] Reference

I know he doesn't want to come off as homophobic, but these contortions make him seem embarrassed by the terms of the actual debate.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gay Marriage Debate] Reference

The game caught on in congressional ads, too, where even more ludicrous factual contortions took place in order to parcel out blame.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Whoppers of 2008—The Sequel] Reference

We see the odd contortions to which they give rise without seeing the reasons for them, and they are to us fit subjects for caricature.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Education of American Girls] Reference

It rolled over and over in contortions of agony, the sweat streaming from its body, while a pitiful moaning came from its horrid mouth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Omega, the Man] Reference

Then in its contortions it wallowed up out of the lake as it swung its terrible head about in agony, all the while hissing its challenge.    From Wordnik.com.  [Omega, the Man] Reference

When they reached the landing in front of Yeomans's ranch, the congratulations began, with wild gesticulations, leapings, and contortions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life at Puget Sound: With Sketches of Travel in Washington Territory, British Columbia, Oregon and California] Reference

When I was in the scene in the barn he encouraged me to do as many contortions as I could, and he seemed to like the fact I was so 'bendy.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jackie K. Cooper: Ashley Bell: The Last Exorcism Introduces the "Bendy" Girl] Reference

Mr. Strong laid aside his hat, rumpled up his shining black hair, and went through some fearful contortions of face, which almost paralyzed.    From Wordnik.com.  [At the Little Brown House] Reference

A score of half-naked men, were dancing around the fire in front of the inclosure, with the wildest and most extravagant contortions of body.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Island Home] Reference

This completes the business, and the dragon proceeds on its sinuous way amidst the howling and contortions of a superstitious and excited mob.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83] Reference

They make a thousand contortions, talk to the bones, load the spirits of the adverse party with curses, and the whole village echoes with imprecations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 2 (of 3)] Reference

It is very noticeable that on the vase the contortions of the Triton's body seem much more violent; here the sculptor could not well follow the vase-painter so closely.    From Wordnik.com.  [The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1] Reference

The sufferer's voice grew husky from joining in the chant; he groveled on the ground in violent contortions for a few minutes, and was then removed to the outside of the lodge.    From Wordnik.com.  [Three Years on the Plains Observations of Indians, 1867-1870] Reference